[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Iain Buclaw]

On Sep 14, 2013 8:21 AM, "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:
>
> Am 14.09.2013 08:14, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
>
>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 06:37:49 +0200
>> "dusr" <dusr at d.usr> wrote:
>>
>>>> Like I said, I've been a Linux user for a long time, and that's
>>>> by choice! But I still envy a lot of what Windows gets right
>>>> and still long for the good old days of DOS where it was just
>>>> you, the hardware, and a little tiny helper library that was
>>>> there if you needed it.
>>>
>>>
>>> I've used debian from woody to squeeze, then I moved back to
>>> windows7.
>>> Windows is better.
>>
>>
>> Heh, I'm sort of the opposite. I've been using Windows from 3.11
>> through 7, and from Vista onward I've started to really hate Windows
>> more and more (If I wanted to be running a Mac, I'd have gotten a
>> Mac, not two versions of "New Windows: Apple-Envy Edition" followed by
>> "Microsoft UI-Of-The-Month Club").
>>
>> Meanwhile, I've been using Linux more and more for testing and servers,
>> and I'm looking at switching my main OS over to...probably Debian 7,
>> with wine and VirtualBox for the occasional things that don't come in
>> Linux flavor. I just wish I could get a Linux file manager I liked.
>>
>
> The main problem with Linux distributions, is that even in 2013, it won't
work properly in laptops.
>
> Wireless chipsets, battery use and graphic cards (specially hybrid like
optimus) are still a problem.
>
> Personally I only use Linux on servers, VMs, or laptops sold with Linux
support.
>
> As an example, last April, an Ubuntu update borked my wireless driver,
because of religious FOSS. Ubuntu developers changed the binary broadcom
driver, working flawlessly, for the open source one, which was still half
done.
>
> There is a discussion about it on their forums, if you want a link for it.
>
> So nowadays I rather use systems for work, that value my up time.
>

If I was to install Windows or OSX on my laptop I'd probably have similar
issues with wireless, display not working, etc...

There are plenty of places to check hardware compatibility of a
laptop/computer you are thinking about purchasing (e.g. http://h-node.org )
- there are even some things that I boycott because of ethical feelings
towards the manufacturer or technology (e.g. UEFI).

If you don't want the hassle of checking that each component works with
your favourite OS, then you can simply go down the pre installed route.
https://www.system76.com

As for your wireless driver woes, I'm sure you still had the choice to go
for the proprietary drivers, which would mean you have to also blacklist
the OSS one (done this plenty in the past, except for resolving conflicts
with OSS drivers that think they can talk to the same device, but one gives
me 1m wireless AP scanning range, and the other 30m :)

Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

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